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Shodair Children's Hospital is a non-profit, 501 C-3 organization. The Montana Children's Foundation raises money which are used for funding equipment purchases and off-setting the cost of uncompensated care.

Shodair is also Montana's only Children's Miracle Network affiliated hospital.

Shodair Children's Hospital employs between 260 – 270 people, including full-time, part-time and flex staff. In Fiscal Year 2011, the Hospital's payroll was nearly $11,000,000.

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Program Background
Fiscal Year 2011

Acute Care (short term crisis stabilization)

Beds: 20
Admissions (Fiscal Year 2011): 586
Patient days: 6,287
Average Length of Stay: 11.1 days

Children's Residential

Beds: 22
Admissions (Fiscal Year 2011): 43
Patient days: 4,053
Average Length of Stay: 94.3 days

Adolescent Residential

Beds: 44 beds on two units
Admissions (Fiscal Year 2011): 153
Patient days: 11,627
Average Length of Stay: 76 days

Shodair is the only facility in Montana with both acute and residential beds in the same facility.

Staffing

• Five psychiatrists who specialize in the treatment of children and adolescents
• Nine primary therapists
• Two psychologists
• One speech-language pathologist
• Music, art and recreation therapy
• RNs/LPNs
• Special Education teachers
• Mental health technicians

Reimbursement

• 59% of acute patients are covered by Medicaid
• 64% of adolescent patients are covered by Medicaid
• 59% of Children's Unit patients are covered by Medicaid.
• In Fiscal Year 2011, uncompensated care was $3.3 million.
• ShoCare is the Hospital's financial assistance program to help individuals and families pay for psychiatric and genetic services at Shodair. ShoCare works on a sliding scale based on household income of up to 200% of the federal poverty level.

99% of Shodair's psychiatric patients are from Montana. Depending on the unit, approximately 5 – 12% of our patients are of Native American decent.

Montana Medical Genetics Program Background
Fiscal Year 2011

Clinical Genetics

Staffing:

• Four Genetic Counselors
• Two Medical Geneticists

Patients in Fiscal Year 2011: 900839

Clinics: 84 per year

• Billings: Two days per month
• Great Falls and Missoula: Monthly
• Helena: Three – four days per month
• Kalispell, Butte, Bozeman: Quarterly
• Miles City, Glendive, Sidney, Wolf Point, Browning: Annually

Telemedicine capacity with over 60 healthcare facilities in Montana.

Laboratory

Staffing:

• PhD Geneticist
• Technologists
• Students

Maternal Serum screening first trimester pregnancy screening
Tests in Fiscal Year 2011: 942

Cytogenetics

Staffing:

• Technologists
• Students

Tests include prenatal, infant and child, cancer
Tests in Fiscal Year 2011: 1,010

DNA:

Staffing:

• Technologists

Reference laboratory serves national market
Tests in Fiscal Year 2011: 519

Pharmacogenetic (drug metabolism) testing
Tests in Fiscal Year 2011: 169

Newborn Screening Follow-up Program

Staffing:

• One Biochemical Geneticist
• One Registered Nurse
• One Nutritionist

This program was implemented as a result of 2007 legislation expanding newborn screening in Montana. It provides comprehensive state-wide follow-up.

Funding:

• Funded in part with special revenue account money authorized by the 2005 Montana Legislature
• $1.00 from each health and disability insurance policy sold in Montana

Program Strengths:

• Availability of both counselors and laboratory staff on-site provides comprehensive genetic services for both patients and physicians.
• Focused staff expertise in newborn genetic diseases, cancer genetics, fetal alcohol syndrome, and inherited disease.
• Pharmacogenetic testing for ability to metabolize prescription drugs.